FRI/SHO, CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CAN, COULD AND BE ABLE TO.

TELL ME THE VERB ‘ CAN’.

WHAT DOES ‘CAN’ MEAN?  HOW DO YOU SAY ‘CAN’ IN SPANISH?

SABER

PODER

SER CAPAZ DE…

IT IS USED FOR ABILITY AND PERMISSION.

I CAN RUN FAST. YO PUEDO..

I CAN SAY ALL THE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD. YO SÉ…

I CAN GO OUT UNTIL 10 PM. YO TENGO PERMISO/PUEDO…

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FORMS IN AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE?

IS THERE ANY CHANGE IN THE VERB? DOES THE THIRD PERSON SINGULAR HAVE AN ‘S’?

DO YOU CALL THE VERB ‘CAN’ OR ‘TO CAN’?

DO YOU USE ‘TO’ AFTER CAN?

NO!

FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH IS CORRECT?

I CAN SWIM.

OR

I CAN TO SWIM.

REMEMBER-YOU DON’T USE CAN WITH ‘TO’.

HOW DO YOU WRITE THE NEGATIVE?

WHY DO YOU PUT AN APOSTROPHE IN CAN’T?

WHICH LETTERS DO YOU TAKE AWAY AND REPLACE WITH AN APOSTROPHE?

LOOK AT THESE ACTIVITIES AND TELL ME IF YOU CAN OR CAN’T DO THEM.

SPEAK ITALIAN

DRIVE A CAR

SPEAK SPANISH

RUN FAST

JUMP HIGH

KNIT A JUMPER

EMBROIDER

MAKE AN INVOICE IN ENGLISH

RIDE A MOTORBIKE

MAKE HANDICRAFTS

DANCE SALSA

COOK WELL

USE A COMPUTER

MAKE A WEBSITE

DANCE ALL NIGHT

SWIM FAST

ASK YOUR CLASS MATES IF THEY CAN DO THESE ACTIVITIES.

CAN YOU ….?

YES, I CAN.

NO, I CAN’T.

ASK THEM IF THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN DO THEM.

CAN YOUR SISTER RUN FAST?

CAN YOUR FRIENDS SPEAK ENGLISH?

SOME MORE PRACTISE

TEL ME 5 THINGS YOU CAN OR CANNOT DO.

I CAN’T DRIVE A CAR.

I CAN COOK PASTA.

CLICK HERE TO DO A SIMPLE EXERCISE ON CAN/CAN’T.

DO YOU THINK ‘CAN’ IS AN EASY VERB OR A DIFFICULT VERB IN THE PRESENT?

I THINK IT IS EASY IN THE PRESENT.

WHAT ABOUT IN THE OTHER VERB TENSES, LIKE THE FUTURE AND THE PAST, ETC.? DO YOU THINK IT IS EASY IN THE OTHER TENSES?

WHAT IS THE PAST OF ‘CAN’?

THE PAST OF ‘CAN’ IS GENERALLY ‘COULD’.

LET’S LOOK AT COULD. LATER WE WILL LOOK AT OTHER WAYS OF TALKING ABOUT ‘CAN’ IN THE PAST.

HOW DO WE USE COULD WITH THE DIFFERENT PRONOUNS? DOES IT CHANGE?

NO!

I COULD, YOU COULD, THEY COULD…. ETC.

DO YOU PRONOUNCE THE ‘L’?

NO!

DO WE USE ‘TO’ WITH COULD?

NO!

WHAT IS THE NEGATIVE?

COULD NOT

COULDN’T

HOW DO YOU MAKE QUESTIONS WITH ‘COULD’?

COULD YOU SWIM WHEN YOU WERE 5 YEARS OLD? YES. I COULD. NO, I COULDN’T.

WHERE COULD PEOPLE SMOKE 15 YEARS AGO? THEY COULD SMOKE IN PUBLIC PLACES LIKE BARS AND RESTAURANTS.

LET’S USE ‘COULD’.

THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG AND GROWING UP.

ASK SOME QUESTIONS USING ‘COULD YOU’, C’OULD YOUR BROTHER’, ETC.. REMEMBER TO INDICATE THE PAST IN YOUR QUESTION. FOR EXAMPLE..

‘WHAT COULD YOU DO WHEN YOU WERE 6 YEARS OLD?’

COULD YOU JUMP HIGH WHEN YOU WERE A BABY/ 30 YEARS AGO?

REVISE WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIMES IN THE PAST, AND REVISE THE PAST OF THE VERB TO BE.

REMEMBER THE PAST OF THE VERB TO BE…. I WAS, YOU WERE, ETC.

ASK YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES ABOVE, USE……..

COULD YOU ……….. WHEN YOU WERE ……… YEARS OLD?

COULD YOU …….. WHEN YOU WERE A BABY?

COULD YOUR DAUGHTER WALK WHEN SHE WAS 10 MONTHS OLD?

SPEAK ITALIAN

DRIVE A CAR

SPEAK SPANISH

RUN

JUMP

KNIT

EMBROIDER

MAKE AN INVOICE IN ENGLISH

RIDE A MOTORBIKE

MAKE HANDICRAFTS

DANCE SALSA

COOK WELL

USE A COMPUTER

MAKE A WEBSITE

DANCE ALL NIGHT

SWIM FAST

NOW TELL THE CLASS WHAT YOU COULD AND COULDN’T DO WHEN YOU WERE 10 YEARS OLD.

I COULD RIDE A BICYCLE.  I COULDN’T DRIVE A CAR.

SO, WE HAVE LOOKED AT CAN IN THE PRESENT AND COULD IN THE PAST.

CAN YOU TRANSLATE THESE SENTENCES?

HE CAN SPEAK 5 LANGUAGES.

HE COULD PLAY WELL WHEN HE WAS 6 YEARS OLD.

I COULDN’T GO TO THE PARTY YESTERDAY.

CLICK HERE FOR A SIMPLE EXERCISE WITH COULD, COULDN’T OR COULD?

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXERCISE WITH CAN, CAN’T, COULD AND COULDN’T.

CAN IS FOR THE PRESENT, COULD IS FOR THE PAST. GENERALLY SPEAKING THAT IS TRUE. HOWEVER, IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT ‘CAN’ IN OTHER VERB TENSES WE MUST USE ‘ TO BE ABLE TO’ INSTEAD OF CAN . WE CAN ALSO USE ‘ TO BE ABLE TO’ IN THE PAST AND PRESENT. LET’S LOOK AT ‘TO BE ABLE TO’.

EXAMPLES

CAN OR BE ABLE TO

I CAN SWIM.

I AM ABLE TO SWIM.

COULD OR BE ABLE TO

I COULD SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO.

I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO.

WILL BE ABLE TO

I WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN THE FUTURE.

LET’S LOOK AT THE NEGATIVE FORMS OF TO BE ABLE TO.

EXAMPLES

CAN’T OR NOT BE ABLE TO

I CAN’T SWIM.

I AM NOT ABLE TO SWIM.

COULDN’T OR WASN’T / WEREN’T ABLE TO

I COULDN’T SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO.

I WASN’T ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO.

WON’T BE ABLE TO

I WON’T BE ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN THE FUTURE.

LET’S LOOK AT THE INTERROGATIVE FORMS OF ‘TO BE ABLE TO’.

EXAMPLES

CAN OR BE ABLE TO

CAN YOU SWIM?

ARE YOU ABLE TO SWIM?

COULD OR BE ABLE TO

COULD HE SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO?        YES, HE COULD.  / NO, HE COULDN’T.

WERE YOU ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH 10 YEARS AGO? YES, I WAS. / NO, I WASN’T.

WILL BE ABLE TO

WILL YOU BE ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN THE FUTURE? YES, I WILL. NO, I WON’T.

LET’S PRACTISE TALKING ABOUT ABILITY IN THE FUTURE. REVISE THE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS WE USE TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE.

WE USE ‘BE ABLE TO’

SO TELL ME ABOUT ABILITY IN THE FUTURE. LET’S USE ‘WILL BE ABLE TO’.

WHEN THE PANDEMIC FINISHES

I WILL BE ABLE TO ……………..

MY SON WILL BE ABLE TO…

THE SPANISH PEOPLE

TOURISTS ……..

WHAT ABOUT IN THE NEGATIVE?

I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO….

YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO….

HE WON’T BE ABLE TO….

MY FRIENDS /NO PODRAN / VISIT THIS YEAR

TOURISTS/    PODRAN           /GO OUT WITHOUT MASKS……. NEXT YEAR

WE  /PODREMOS/ DANCE TONIGHT

THEY / NO SERÁN CAPACES DE / GO ON HOLIDAY…….. UNTIL……. 2022

USE THESE VERBS TO PRACTISE ‘TO BE ABLE TO’ IN THE FUTURE.

EAT SOLID FOODS

WRITE

GO TO NURSERY

STOP WEARING NAPPIES

GO TO SCHOOL

GO ALONE TO SCHOOL

GO TO SECONDARY SCHOOL

START AT UNIVERSITY

FINISH UNIVERSITY

GET MARRIED

VOTE

GO TO DANCE CLUBS

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXERCISE WITH ‘TO BE ABLE TO’

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ASK SOME QUESTIONS

CAN YOU…?

ARE YOU ABLE TO ……?

COULD YOU ….. WHEN YOU WERE ……?

COULD YOUR MOTHER …………IN 1960?

WERE THEY ABLE TO….?

WILL YOU BE ABLE TO ………….. NEXT YEAR?

WILL HE BE ABLE TO….. IN 2 MONTHS’ TIME?